Our Mission
Working with our compassionate community, we will end pet homelessness and animal suffering.
About Us
For over 100 years, the Dumb Friends League has been working to end pet homelessness and animal suffering by providing a strong and steadfast voice for those who cannot speak for themselves. As the largest community-based animal welfare organization in the region, we care for more than 21,000 homeless pets and horses each year.
The Dumb Friends League is the only animal champion with unmatched expertise who provides compassionate care through the most comprehensive, direct services for any pet in Colorado who is vulnerable to homelessness, suffering and abuse because every pet in our community deserves to be nurtured, safe and cherished. We will work together in a united coalition to promote socially conscious sheltering to create the best outcomes for all animals, promote safe communities and nurture the human-animal bond.
The Dumb Friends League has five facilities, including:
• Two shelters for homeless pets that offer adoptions, pet admissions, lost-and-found services and humane education classes for the public:
The Leslie A. Malone Center in Denver
The Buddy Center in Castle Rock
• The Harmony Equine Center, a private rehabilitation and adoption center for equine victims of mistreatment, as well as horses that come from partner humane societies and rescue groups to receive professional training and opportunities for new lives.
• Solutions–Veterinary Hospital, a full-service animal hospital for owned pets to prevent and alleviate suffering in pets whose caretakers would otherwise be unable to provide this medical care.
• Solutions–Cat Spay/Neuter Clinic,® which offers free spay/neuter surgeries and FVRCP and (age appropriate) rabies vaccinations for Colorado cats, including owned cats and community cats.
We rescue & find homes for homeless cats.
We partner with rescues who save homeless cats and kittens at risk of euthanasia in high-risk shelters and house them in our cafes. Once they are at our locations, we care for our cats & kittens until they are adopted! Our mission is to reduce euthanasia in animal shelters and to improve the lives of homeless cats.
We are NEKO: A Cat Cafe. Our mission is to put a smile on your face and a cat on your lap all while helping out cats that need us most.
Inspired by the cat cafe culture of Japan, NEKO is a fun and unique space that brings humans and cats together.
We partner with shelters across the country to help cats who are Feline Leukemia positive and find them FURever homes. NEKO was founded by Caitlin Unsell and Cory James who after spending 2 years living in Sapporo, Japan came back to Seattle, WA with a dream of opening their own cat cafe.
We are always looking to broaden our NEKO pride.